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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (157403)	5/21/2003 11:53:23 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<<the idea that a ghetto kid has an equal chance to start and run microsoft as the kid of attorney parents who received the best education possible is absurd. bill owes everything to his ability to not pick ghetto parents. >> you attribute everything to accident of birth. Innate intelligence is not at all part of the equation? What about drive and persistence, emotional intelligence, and deferred gratification? How do you explain the fact that not every child of attorney parents is worth $40 billion ?